After facing off against Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has declared: “There will be no third debate!”
The former president wrote in a lengthy post on his platform Truth Social, “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate.”
It is unclear which polls Trump is referring to, as major polls favored Harris by a landslide. A poll from CNN showed that 63% of registered voters who watched the debate say Harris outperformed Trump. Another one from YouGov had Harris 23 points above Trump in terms of debate performance.
An hour after Trump’s post, Harris wrote on X: “Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate. We owe it to the voters to have another debate.” Harris’ campaign also challenged Trump to another debate minutes after Tuesday’s showdown on ABC News ended.
Answering questions from reporters immediately after the debate ended, Trump said Tuesday night, “We thought it was our best debate ever — it was my best debate ever. She wants a second debate because she lost.”
The candidates had not previously agreed to have another debate. Back in March, before Trump faced off against Biden — whose disastrous performance resulted, in large part, in the current President dropping out of the race — Trump wrote on Truth Social: “It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People. Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE! The Debates can be run by the Corrupt DNC, or their Subsidiary, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). I look forward to receiving a response. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
From Variety US